Ode to Tilda: A Swintonian challenge for fall

Tilda Swinton has had one of the most fascinating careers in the business -- there's absolutely nothing average about her. After watching Snowpiercer recently, I was so reminded and inspired by her awesomeness that I've decided to learn more about her diverse body of work.  First, a little personal Swinton history:

Since I first became aware of her with Orlando in 1992 (part of my unabashed years of art house skulking), I unconsciously watch for her, and am always delighted to see her in any role she takes on. Her uncommon beauty is indelible, and most of her films take full advantage, from Conceiving Ada to the Narnia films to The Grand Budapest Hotel.  Even in Michael Clayton, where she plays a relatively normal human rather than an angel or mythical queen, her astonishing pallor, too often mistaken for fragility, turns on those who underestimate such a bitch.

Her interviews reveal, in no uncertain terms, equally astonishing intelligence, and a commitment to character that pays off big in her portrayals.  Perfectly capable of serene loveliness on the red carpet and the catwalk, she is fearless when acting, and seems to have no problem "going ugly", a fear which holds so many other beautiful actresses back.  I have long believed that this is why so many hideous roles seem like award "gimmes", as we tend to see a gorgeous woman transforming herself into her own physical antithesis (e.g. Charlize Theron in Monster) simultaneously so alarming and so mesmerizing that we naturally assume that she must be a better actress than anyone else that year. It's no surprise that this doesn't seem to hold equally true for men -- perhaps we expect them to be monsters underneath the pretty?  But I digress.

So clearly there's great depth here, and like me, you probably haven't worked your way through Swinton's entire body of work.  Therefore, I hereby challenge myself to see as many Tilda Swinton movies as I can get my hands on this fall.  I'll resist the titles I've already enjoyed*, but by the end of 2016, I want to at least have seen the following (except for the first title, listed in no particular order):

• Doctor Strange (opening November 4)
• Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
• The Protagonists
• Possible Worlds
• Teknolust
• We Need to Talk About Kevin
• The Deep End
• Julia
• A Bigger Splash
• Only Lovers Left Alive
• I am Love
• Trainwreck  (if I must)

That's about one a week, so that should keep me busy.  Wish me well in tracking them all down, and stay tuned for random notes!

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*To avoid accusations of bias or neglect, these are the movies from her list that I've already seen over the years, listed here in chronological order of release:

• Aria
• Orlando
• Wittgenstein
• Female Perversions
• Vanilla Sky
• Adaptation
• Thumbsucker
• Constantine
• Broken Flowers
• The Chronicles of Narnia:  The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• Burn After Reading
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Snowpiercer
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Hail, Caesar!